Bobby Lee Claremont and the criminal element
By: Jeannie Mobley
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780823437818
Subjects: Missing persons; Juvenile fiction; Criminals; Railroad trains; Orphans
Description: It s 1923, and thirteen-year-old Bobby Lee Claremont is leaving the Sisters of Charitable Mercy orphanage in New Orleans, certain a better life awaits in Chicago s glamorous-sounding mob scene. But his plans unravel when he boards his train and meets the recently widowed Nanette O Halloran, her two traveling companions, and a cop who suspects the trio of murdering Nanette s husband. Bobby Lee is sure Nanette s innocent. But what about her companions?
Notes: 4567 Childrens Plus, Inc.